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Failure of Intelligence - The Decline and Fall of the CIA (Hardcover)
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Failure of Intelligence - The Decline and Fall of the CIA (Hardcover)
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The time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the
Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence community in
general is long overdue. The recent intelligence failures regarding
the unanticipated collapse of the Soviet Union, the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, and the run-up to the Iraq war
demonstrate a CIA and a $50 billion intelligence enterprise that
cannot provide strategic warning to policymakers and, even worse,
is capable of falsifying intelligence to suit political purposes.
It will not be possible to reform the enterprise until we
understand and debate the nexus between intelligence and policy,
the important role of intelligence, and the need for an
intelligence agency that is not beholden to political interests.
The recent appointment of three general officers to the three most
important positions in the intelligence community points to the
militarization of overall national security policy, which must be
reversed. The military domination of the intelligence cycle makes
it more difficult to rebuild strategic intelligence and to provide
a check on the Pentagon's influence over foreign policy and the use
of force. Failure of Intelligence is designed to inform such a
debate and suggest a reform agenda. In this timely and important
book, the author offers a provocative mingling of historical
description with contemporary political analysis and reform
prescription that challenges the conventional wisdom on clandestine
collection. The book ultimately and persuasively asserts that the
failure to have diplomatic relations has led to the inability to
collect intelligence.
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